Montgomery v. Whitfield
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from tlie Twenty-seventh District Court, Parish of Bichland. Williams, J. 1. 1. Informalities connected with or growing out of any public sale are prescribed against in five years, whether against minors, married women or interdicted persons. R. O. C. 3543. 2. Tax sales are public sales within the meaning of this statute.
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APPEAL from tlie Twenty-seventh District Court, Parish of Bichland. Williams, J. 1. 1. Informalities connected with or growing out of any public sale are prescribed against in five years, whether against minors, married women or interdicted persons. R. O. C. 3543. 2. Tax sales are public sales within the meaning of this statute. Saunders on Taxation, p. 318; Roberts vs. Zansler, 34 Ann. 205 ; Giddens vs. Mobley, 37 Ann. 419, bottom. 3. Tax titles are, and under Act 47 of 1873 were prima, facie valid sales. Constitution of 1868, Article 118; Constitution of 1879, Article 210. 4. A tax…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of- the Court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
The petitioner sues, as the Mississippi guardian of the minor children, issue of the marriage of Harrison P. Montgomery with Minerva L. Harrington, citizens of this State, now deceased, for the recovery of an undivided one-lialf interest in a certain tract of land, in Richland parish, known as the Eureka plantation, and for tlie revenues thereof, from January 1, 1876, which are placed at $500 per annum. He avers that II. P. Montgomery married the mother of Ms wards in 1862, and purchased this property on the 14th of July, 1869, and that in…
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